Novitiate Experience

In 1908 Sister Norbert Martin left her home in Ireland to enter the Novitiate of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace in New Jersey. "America seemed the end of the world to us, but we went anyway." Listen to Sister Norbert in an oral history recorded in 1976.

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Traveling West

Sister Norbert tells the story of traveling west on the Great Northern Railroad and the challenges they had eating on the train. "But when Sunday came our chicken was ready to walk and we had to throw it out the window."

Going to Rome

Shortly after professing her final vows in 1926, Sr. Jerome Armstrong went to Rome with 2 Sisters from each province to look after the domestic arrangements at Scots College Seminary. In this oral history recorded in 1977, Sr. Jerome tells of her journey first to Nottingham and then to Rome.

Long Distance Vocation

Today, many young women discerning a religious vocation make initial contact via websites.  Sister Lucille Barth and her blood Sister Teresita learned about the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace via an advertisement in a newspaper … in 1922!  Listen to Sister Teresita tell the story in an oral history recorded in 1980.

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